Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article in the New York Times Magazine, James MacGregor Burns, professor of Political Science at Williams, concluded that "Formal debating still sets standards of argumentation in a day when questions are often dismissed with wisecracks, smears, half-truths...
Members of the class wore caps and gowns over formal dress. The Senior Class dance at Agassiz followed the Class Night exercises...
Next night, the formal Nov. 5 opening will present Beethoven's Fidelia, with tickets at a feudal 5,000-schilling ($192) top, to be followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...
...Student of the week: Margaret Gregory, 32-year-old daughter of show people, who until nine years ago had never had a day of formal schooling in her life. Then, after her discharge from the WACs in 1946, she took some special training at Endicott, N.Y.'s Harpur College, two semesters later enrolled in Buffalo's Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took...
...sweep up some of the dust kicked up by the polio row in his Department of Health. Education and Welfare, President Eisenhower had picked Nelson Rockefeller. Under Secretary in the Department and a presidential troubleshooter, Rockefeller drafted a formal progress report on the vaccine situation, which Ike released last week. Full of the obvious lessons from the vaccine mix-up ("From the delay science has gained new knowledge, new safeguards"), the report carried one bit of near-news: enough vaccine to complete the two free shots for the first-and second-graders, run by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...